Best known for funding the Mujahedeen resistance in Afghanistan against the Soviet occupation of the 1980s. Nicknamed "Good Time Charlie" for his pursuit of alcohol and women.

"It's absolutely astounding the lengths to which the Justice Department have gone to try and figure out what I did in a hot tub in Las Vegas. If they had put the same resources into drug trafficking... there would be half as much heroin coming into the United States as there is now."